A Few Notes on B907

The chickens breeding exponentially is an issue - we’ll be releasing a patch over the weekend to address this asap; please farm chickens responsibly in the meantime (cull as needed, ideally flying birds contributing to overpopulation towards the enemy) :^)

The patch over the weekend will also include some balance changes to builder and archer - archer’s bomb arrow getting an overhaul, and builder block placement and destruction being more tolerant.

A summary of inbound changes:

• Fixed chicken breeding (accounting for overcrowding)
• Bomb arrow explodes on impact.
• Bomb arrow does 1.5 health explosion, 1 health arrow impact
• Bomb arrow explosion does very large damage to structures and vehicles.
• Bomb arrow only breaks 1 tile “radius” like bombs.
• Bomb arrow explosion hurts user.
• Builder aiming of placement and destruction is more lenient
• Ladder has team (and team colour) - no more cutting them accidentally as knight.
• Ladder easier to smash for builder (3 hits).
• Tunnel costs 100 stone, 50 wood
• Scroll of Midas fixed
• Drill much more effective against constructed tiles (heats at 1/3 speed)

Note that this should allow archers with bomb arrows to take on a sapper role - sinking boats, killing catapults and sapping workshops. It should also help “battle builders” a little - they’ll spend less time aiming exactly at the tile they want to break and more time breaking it - and their ladders won’t be smashed by team-mates every single time they put one down :^)

Should be out tomorrow, sorry for the delay on it.

Max/Geti

Original DevBlog post.

 

o-o...
There's chickens? WHAT!?

--- Double Post Merged, Oct 11, 2013, Original Post Date: Oct 11, 2013 ---

Now I got a greater reason to make an angry birds mod... if only someone could like.. help ;w;

 

Over-breeding chickens never really has been problem; chickens breed so slowly, or the eggs are so easily eaten by accident.
Anyways, if this means better breeding [faster, but team capped], or buying eggs, then yes please!

Making the drills heat less is nice, but for some reason they chew through stone doors faster than dirt, it must be a glicth.

 

I dont think me meant heatless... he meant heat less... as in like.. burning out in such a short time. Everything else about it is fine, just that rapid burn out.

 

Wait, so I can drill into stone and gold as much as I want? Same for structures? Well... fuck. That's useful to know.

Also, knights can use drills. Finally I have a way to get through structures as a knight.

I'm really hoping that builders mining enemy/ally structures will get them the resources back or partial resource return in the near future.

 

Isn't resource return already implanted?
Or are you talking about resource return with drills?

 

I hadn't noticed any resource return in the newest build. Accidentally placed doors and walls many times and I didn't see my resources go up.

 

@Klokinator
I believe it's just for wood and stone blocks, not doors. I'll post a screenshot.
E: Here it is:

Spoiler

No stone:
Hit the blocks a few times; stone: